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Word entry · 4 letters

pent

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"Shut in"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /pɛnt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted enptStarts with PEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
1P2E3N4T

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Filled answer is this word (PENT).

Definitions

  1. Closely confined or shut in.

Word origin

From pen + -t.

Used in a sentence

  • There was a catch in my voice, thick as it was with the pent of unshed tears; had I let them flow they would have come out forty per cent proof.
  • My object all sublime I shall achieve in time — To let the punishment fit the crime — The punishment fit the crime; And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment!

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